How the dream garden grows

A regular update on the progress of our garden project.

What a beautiful weekend. And how marvellous it has been to see everything delighting in the sunshine.

12 April 2015

Follow the progress of the Dream Garden from start to finish here.

I know we’re just at the tipping point before everything starts growing like billy-ho and gardeners are scrabbling around, desperately trying to catch up. But at the moment, I feel on top of things. How long that will last is anyone’s guess.

There are lots of beginnings:

Those are sunflower seedlings, sweet peas and kales.

Then there are the fruit flowers. The currant patch is looking very exciting, albeit in a rather discreet way, like someone wriggling their toes together with excitement.

And the blue honeysuckle is covered in flowers this year, which suggests we’re on for a bumper crop.

Then there are the things emerging and limbering up to flower:

These are ice cream tulips, which are pretty eccentric flowers.

Fern fiddleheads in the woodland patch.

And there are many flowers in the garden, too.

There is so much to get excited about.

12 April critique

As in previous weeks: there aren’t enough early spring flowers in the garden to make an impact.

Keep those ideas on how to improve the dream garden coming: I take all of them on board (even the ones I then decide to disagree with). And tweet @fennelandfern with pictures from your own gardens too. I’ll add them below.

@fennelandfern picking purple sprouting broccoli and defying the wind to plant my first pea plants out. pic.twitter.com/wrAhW7vEx9

— Neil Holland (@meal_deal) April 12, 2015

@fennelandfern Hello! Admiring our tulips and getting this little lot in the plot… pic.twitter.com/2NzPWArD34

— hoe & hum (@hoeandhum) April 12, 2015